The poverty rate across the Palestinian territories will almost double this year to 74.3 per cent after months of fighting in Gaza, according to a report by the UN Development Programme released Tuesday.
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Wednesday of the risk of famine in Gaza, a day after the United States said Israel had been warned to improve...
A FEW weeks ago, I had a meeting with a group of scholars and activists, among whom a few were Palestinians. In the middle of our conversation, someone pointed out that the Palestinians within...
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday lashed out at the UN for inaction on Gaza, accusing Israel of turning the Palestinian territory into the 鈥榳orld鈥檚 largest children鈥檚 and women鈥檚 cemetery.鈥�...
A Palestinian-American member of US Congress on Friday condemned a cartoon published in a conservative magazine that depicted her next to an exploding pager.
UN member states voted Wednesday to formally demand an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months and the imposition of sanctions for non-compliance.
An Israeli air strike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Saturday, with Palestinian rescuers reporting five dead and the Israeli military saying it had targeted Hamas militants...
Ministers from Muslim and European countries along with the European Union鈥檚 foreign affairs chief gathered Friday in Madrid to discuss how to advance a two-state solution to the...
Israel killed a senior commander from Fatah鈥檚 armed wing on Wednesday in a strike on Lebanon, leading to accusations from the Palestinian movement that Israel is trying to 鈥榠gnite a regional war鈥�...
WHILE many are earnestly pointing at the devastation of war, the rampant human rights violations and the deliberate relegation of international and humanitarian law, there are those who see war from an entirely different perspective: profits...
Norway said on Thursday that Israel鈥檚 decision to revoke the diplomatic status of Oslo鈥檚 envoys to the Palestinian Authority was an 鈥榚xtreme action鈥� that would 鈥榟ave consequences鈥�...
Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, as violence in the occupied territory showed...
Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in separate air strikes in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian press agency Wafa reported, while the Israeli military said...
WHILE the world often focuses on the political and military aspects of Gaza, the daily realities encountered by women are frequently overlooked. Women in Gaza bear heavy burdens, demonstrating remarkable resilience while navigating the harsh realities of Israel鈥檚 genocidal war...
Palestinian swimmer Yazan Al Bawwab hopes his appearance at the Paris Olympics will help boost opportunities for athletes from the war-torn territory.
Kamala Harris signaled a major shift on US Gaza policy Thursday, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be 鈥榮ilent鈥� on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave...
Chanting 鈥榶es, to peace, yes, to a deal鈥�, hundreds of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis marched noisily through Tel Aviv on Thursday night, demanding an end to the...
The UN鈥檚 top court, in a sweeping opinion on Friday, said that Israeli鈥檚 decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory was 鈥榠llegal鈥� and needed to end as soon as possible...
UK police on Monday arrested two pro-Palestinian demonstrators after a protest at Britain鈥檚 Cenotaph war memorial in central London.
ISRAEL鈥橲 war on Gaza has gone on for more than nine months, following the Hamas-led attack on Israel in October 2023. A Palestinian territory that has been under Israeli occupation since 1967, Gaza, along with Israel and the Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, it is about the same distance away from Europe...
Just hours after the two-week offensive on Gaza City鈥檚 Shujaiya district ended, Palestinians had already found 60 bodies as they picked through the piles of concrete and dust left behind, officials in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday...
Palestinians on Monday fled heavy battles in Gaza City as the Israeli military expanded an evacuation order nine months into its war with Hamas...
Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians 鈥� with Hamas claiming five as members 鈥� in a raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Friday, officials said.
Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes Tuesday on southern Gaza and battled militants after issuing an evacuation order which a UN agency said would impact 2,50,000 Palestinians...
Israeli troops tied a wounded Palestinian to a military vehicle during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the army said on Sunday, admitting that...
G7 finance ministers urged Israel Saturday not to disrupt 鈥榲ital financial transactions鈥� in the occupied Palestinian territories, following indications it could cut off Palestinian banks...
RECENTLY, calls for the western world to recognise a Palestinian state in its own right have been getting louder...
Israel reacted with fury after three European countries said on Wednesday they would recognise a Palestinian state, more than seven months into the devastating Gaza war...
WITH a membership of 57 states located across the world, the 54-year-old Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is the second biggest inter-governmental body after the United Nations. The grouping formally recognises itself as the 鈥榗ollective voice of the Muslim world.鈥� Established in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco...
Tens of thousands of civilians fled heavy fighting in Gaza as Palestinians on Wednesday marked 76 years since their mass displacement during Israel鈥檚 wartime creation which they call the Nakba or 鈥榗atastrophe鈥�...